In this video I show you some exercises to improve your ability to sing with rasp. The first exercise is all about increasing your vocal range with rasp. The second and third are more about controlling your vocal rasp. If you have any questions, leave me a comment down below and i’ll try my best to give you an answer!

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44 thoughts on “Singing With Rasp #3: How to sing with rasp – Exercises”

Thanks! And we actually do have a Facebook account. I can’t post it in the
comment here, but i’ll put the link in the description for this video. If
you search for ‘Of Rare Design facebook’ on Google, we come up. We also
have a SoundClick and a few other similar sites. ﻿

you’re videos are really good! it’s annoying when you find one where you
think they are gonna tell you how to do something (sing with rasp for
example) and it’s just a ploy to get you to buy their £200 plus singing
course or dollars in the states. your videos however are very informative
and taught in a relaxed easy going style!﻿

Thanks again! Yeah i’ve come across a lot of those videos. You expect to
learn what the it says in the title, but they only give you enough
information to make you want to buy their book or overpriced 14 CD singing
course. I’m the guy that has bought them all and is now sharing the
information with the internets ;), haha. ﻿

Thanks! I’ve never heard the term ‘compressing the voice’, but I can
imagine what the term implies. The part that makes the rasp is actually
your ‘false’ vocal cords, which are right above the vocal cords. They close
slightly and put all the overtones you hear from rasp on the tone.
Screaming uses these false cords as well. It takes some time to figure out
how to use the false cords, but once you do, you can apply it to rasp and
most types of screaming. Just takes tons of trial and error. ﻿

I’m assuming you’ve watched all my rasp videos, but if you haven’t, maybe
the other ones could help. If you’re still having issues send me a message
and i’ll try to be more detailed. If you have a video/audio recording of
you trying to do the rasp i’ll be happy to check it out and try to help. —
Andrew﻿

hi man great vids! can u explain or make a vid explainig how to sing blood
and whisky by the rabble i really wanna sing like chazz rabble (or chazz
valentine im not quite sure he actually uses) id be so thankful hear em so
u can tell me if this is the technique he uses thanx!﻿

Sorry for taking so long to respond! The technique should be the same for
females. There isn’t really any difference between guys’ and girls’ vocal
cords, aside from size. If anything, I would recommend be a little more
careful when trying to add rasp or scream. I’m not sure if the smaller size
of female vocal cords would make them more sensitive to injury, but I can
imagine that being the case. But girls can definitely scream! So give this
stuff a try and lemme know if you have any questions.﻿

But just some speculation… Perhaps you are doing the rasp too ‘tightly’?
Or maybe you’re just closing your throat as you do the rasp. Try holding a
note first, and then adding rasp very lightly, hopefully that will
discourage any tight throat closure.﻿

Also, as i’m not female, I can’t really offer my insights as to how females
should add rasp and scream, haha. But, I did look up some YouTube stuff,
and if you type in ‘dileesa hunter rasp’, you will find a woman of the same
name (minus the rasp) that has several videos on how she adds rasp to her
voice. It seems like the technique is the same, but i’m sure she’ll do a
much better job at showing the female vocal perspective than me. Good luck.
And thanks!﻿

It should be about the same volume, or just a little louder. You may be
doing the technique differently if its quieter, or constricting your throat
too much. Hard to tell without audio, but that would be my guess. ﻿

Hi Andrew, fucking great tutorials! I was wondering, if youd care to put
them together in a torrent? Maybe even as mp3s, as the video isnt
necesarry to go through your tutorials. I really appreciate them though,
it would just be nice to have them offline as I normally vocalize elsewhere
with no internet connection. Anyways, really nice. Youve got yourself a
really nice voice to sing rock!﻿

thanks for these great videos Andrew! i can do pure false chord screams and
fry screams but this rasp thing just doesnt want to work. so is the rasp
coming from the scream register or does it come from the false chords? also
when i try to slide up an octave and i transition into my headvoice on the
way it seems like the rasp is somehow being blocked. its very confusing :/﻿

Do you have any advice for how to stretch your range high as a bass? I
always end up sounding like a 13 year old boy when I try to hit anything
higher. So many songs are all made for tenors so i always have to take
them down an octave.﻿

This is really helpful. i tried to find a video with vocal lessions like
this for girls because i’m very into Courtney Love and Brody Dalle and guys
sings a lot differently from girls, but to be honest this works just as
good. it just takes a lot of practice and learning to find the right
techniques. anyway, thank you for this!﻿

Hi, I’ve seen a lot of your videos and they helped me a lot, but I still
can’t make the raspy when I reach head voice. I dont know if Im explaining
it well, but well I think I found my “mixed voice” and I can rasp the
low-mid tones (I think I do it right, Im doing it for about 2 months and I
didnt even got hoarse or a simple throat discomfort) but when I try higher
notes I just cant reach them when using my rasp, or if I sing the high
notes without rasp and I try to add it, my voice just go low or start to do
weird things. For example, in the #2 video with the linkin park song, I
can’t reach the “beneath my skin” part. If you could give me some advices
or guess what Im doing wrong Id appreciate it. Sorry for my english, its
not my first language, and thank you for your videos anyway :)﻿

Quick question, I’ve been trying to find the right way to start with
grit/distortion. And I tried a bit but grunting seems like it might be a
nice starting point. What would you say could help refine that type of
grunting type noise into grit/distortion?﻿

Hey Andrew you’re videos are great! I was wondering if maybe I could find a
way to send you a few of my videos singing? A friend and I have recently
started up a band and I’m just trying to get the rasp down to full effect.
You have a knowledgeable grasp on this matter and that is why I was
wondering if you may be able to tell me what I may be doing wrong!﻿